Google Maps… Now With Traffic

By Dave Bullock / eecue
February 28th, 2007 @ 11:22 AM Uncategorized

I’ve been waiting for quite some time for this to happen. Google maps now has traffic for LA. Rawk!

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10 Comments so far

  1. Tony Karrer (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 11:30 am

    Always cool to cite where you saw this.

  2. eecue (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 11:32 am

    saw it on digg… sorry about that.

  3. jillian (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 12:21 pm

    It’s been available on my Crackberry Gmaps app for months - so glad it’s on the big site now!

  4. Tony Karrer (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 12:37 pm

    So weird - I was just posting about it this morning. What sparked my post was the post about predicting traffic.

  5. frazgo (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 1:11 pm

    Interesting, but I have been using a couple of similar for real time info for the last few years:
    http://www.sigalert.com/map.asp?Region=LA+East
    http://traffic.accuweather.com/traffic.aspx?metroid=2&area=Los+Angeles
    and finally for statewide info:
    http://cad.chp.ca.gov/

  6. Koga (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 2:03 pm

    I still like sigalert.com for information on specific accidents w/ traffic mapping, and trafficinfo.lacity.org for street-level traffic.

  7. Mike (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 2:31 pm

    Google Maps with traffic has been available for quite some time, but only on a mobile device.

    The “Killer App” for my Treo 700p was Google’s Mobile Maps and a broadband connection. Originally only available for the Palm OS, but I see there’s a CAB file for Windows Mobile now, that will integrate with GPS! Working on the West Side and living in Los Feliz means my route home varies almost daily, and having an (almost) real-time view of what’s happening ahead is amazing!

    Google (almost) proves the existence of (insert deity of choice here)!

  8. 5000! (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 3:24 pm

    Did Google Maps fix the part where they tell you to take exits off the highway that don’t exist? Because until that’s done I’m not particularly inclined to trust their traffic data.

  9. Sam (unregistered) on February 28th, 2007 @ 5:38 pm

    If you’ve got a windows mobile phone, Live is actually even a bit slicker than google (heresy, I know):

    http://mobile.search.live.com/about/download
    or http://wls.live.com from your phone.

  10. Kenarch (unregistered) on March 1st, 2007 @ 1:50 am

    I use the KNX maps - they are larger scale, though they are broken into several sections… and since I live downtown, and 80% of my trips are south and east, I tend to use the LA County - East map almost all the time. I like that they have info at almost every on/offramp, and specific accident location and description indicators. I’ve been using these maps for a long time and would say they are at least 95% accurate.

    Besides, the LA-West map seems to always show red for crawling traffic… duh!

    http://www.knx1070.com/pages/79761.php?


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